The European Union is finally taking notice of that what's going on here has less to do with IP rights and far more to do with trying to illegally beat the snot out of the competition. Joaquín Almunia, the European Union's Competition Commissioner, in effect, its chief anti-trust regulator has said: "In the IT sector, it is obvious it is not the only case. Apple and Samsung is only one case where intellectual property rights can be used as an instrument to restrict competition," Almunia said. He added that both standardization and intellectual property rights are two instruments that can be "used as a tool of abuse."

That's exactly what's happening. If Samsung, a global power in its own right, can't beat Apple, or decides it's too expensive to stay in the game, what chance does any other company have? A smaller business doesn't stand a chance in a world where a bully corporation can literally sue them around the world 24-hours a day until they collapse.

The sooner IP law is cleaned of its design, business practices, and software patent evils the better. If it's not, even if Apple repents of its anti-competitive ways, innovation in any technology is going to come to an end except for the companies that can afford the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of global litigation.